Conceptual approach to justification of strategic orientations for the development of technical and technological bases for fodder production

The article proposes a conceptual approach to substantiating strategic guidelines for the development of the technical and technological base of forage production. Analysis of the dynamics of changes in the quantitative composition of the forage harvester fleet shows that over the past three decades, there has been a steady tendency towards its constant decline, which is due to both a decrease in the livestock population and, as a consequence, a decrease in the area occupied by forage crops, and a general tendency to increase the energy saturation of machines in agriculture, which can significantly increase their productivity. Along with the obvious advantages, such as, for example, savings in fuels and lubricants and the wage bill due to a reduction in the number of runs across the field, such trends carry a number of risks associated with possible downtime to eliminate the consequences of failures and, as a result, violation of agrotechnical harvesting terms. Foreign companies that have moved assembly plants to the territory of the Russian Federation and have met the requirements for localization of production often leave the production of spare parts outside its borders, which cannot be considered as a positive factor from the point of view of food security. State support, directed until recently mainly to manufacturers of equipment, did not fully stimulate the implementation of research and development work that could increase the competitiveness of domestic products over foreign ones, all other things being equal. These factors in the aggregate dictate the need for a study of the prospects for the development of its market. The main results of the work represent specific recommendations that can be applied to substantiate management decisions on the material and technical support of feed production at livestock enterprises, as well as to substantiate the directions for increasing the efficiency of the material and technical support of production. As a result, the article proposes a conceptual approach to substantiating the strategic guidelines for the development of the technical and technological base of forage production, taking into account the current level of technical progress.